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The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration 

"The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage." uclpress.co.uk/products/107752 (4)

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RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information 

Mattick, J., & Amaral, P. (2022). RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information (1st ed.). CRC Press. doi.org/10.1201/9781003109242 (5)

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Book: A history of English. 

Hejná, Míša & Walkden, George. 2022. A history of English. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6560336 (6)

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Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity 

Leventhal, M. (2022). Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009127295 (8)

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Rapp, C., Kinloch, M., Krausmüller, D., Mitsiou, E., Nesseris, I., Papavarnavas, C., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Rossetto, G., Shukurov, R., & Simeonov, G. (2023). Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook. In V&R unipress eBooks. doi.org/10.14220/9783737013413 @medievodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (45)

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Donne, J. (1624). Devotions Vpon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: Digested Into I. Meditations Upon Our Humane Condition. 2. Expostuvlations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, Upon the Seuerall Occasions, to Him. United Kingdom: A.M.. google.co.uk/books/edition/Dev @bookstodon (50)

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"Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?"

Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Philosophy of Online Manipulation (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205425 @philosophy @bookstodon (52)

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von Mallinckrodt, R., Köstlbauer, J. & Lentz, S. (2021). Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833 @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (53)

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"In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas."

Barth, J. (2022). The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. doi.org/10.1515/9781501755781 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (55)

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"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition)."

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"A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium."

Beretta, M. (Ed.). (2022). A Cultural History Of Chemistry: In Antiquity. London,: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved September 10, 2023, from dx.doi.org/10.5040/97814742037
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"Facilitates an in-depth understanding of data-intensive methods

Is the most advanced survey of data practices across the sciences

Presents a ground-breaking and comprehensive framework for data studies".

Leonelli, S., & Tempini, N. (2020). Data Journeys in the Sciences. In Springer eBooks. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-3717 @philosophy @science @bookstodon (59)

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de Blois, L., and Rich, J. (eds) (28 May. 2019). The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004401624 [Accessed 20 September 2023]. @histodon
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